[ubuntu-vi] Help on Setting Default Input Method as SCIM

[Ngô Huy Hoàng]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Tran Anh Tuan <lusiads at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I prefer SCIM to input Vietnamese, that used to work for me. Now I got
> problems, I can only right click, select either Input Method\SCIM Input
> Method or Input Method\SCIM Bridge Input Method to switch to SCIM (after
> that it works well). But there're no such menu for OpenOffice and Firefox.
> All I want is setting SCIM as default input method, so I don't have to
> select it manually. Just press keyboard shortcuts.
>
> Try to reinstall scim and m17n:
> sudo apt-get remove scim
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install scim scim-m17n m17n-db
>
> Switch current default input method to scim:
> im-switch -z en_US.UTF8 -s scim
> second try: im-switch -c, select scim.
> also tried with im-switch -z en_US.UTF8 -s scim. My locale is en_US.UTF-8.
>
> Try to modify /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim to set default input method.
>
> Can anyone give me sugguestions on how to fix it?

You can read the instruction from this page, it works perfectly for me
 http://www.hanoilug.org/dokuwiki/soft:scimtelex

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Hoang